skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The MiniMax API by useapi.net offers a fixed $10/m subscription with near-unlimited text-to-speech generations and voice cloning capabilities.

• Up to 20 parallel TTS jobs per single account.
You can connect as many accounts as you need.
• Average response time for live streaming is 3 seconds.
• Average time to create an MP3 from text is under 20 seconds.
• Over 300 pre-built voices available.
• Ability to clone an unlimited number of voices.
• Supported Languages: English, Chinese (Mandarin), Spanish, French, Russian, Portuguese, Indonesian, German, Japanese, Korean, Italian, and Cantonese.
• Supported Emotions: happy, sad, angry, fearful, disgusted, surprised, and neutral.
• Supported Accents: US (General), British English, and Indian English.
• Supported Ages: Young Adult, Adult, Middle-Aged, and Senior.
• Supported Genders: Male and Female.
It is actually far worse than just corporate greed.
It shows an embedded vulnerability into the entire supply chain, a national security issue caused by corruption.

They should get awards and payouts for bringing this to light now rather than the lives it would cost during a world war.

If the company makes it so these trains stop functioning once they are in specific locations, what determines that location? A weak GPS radio signal (which have had issues with spoofing in the past)?

What would happen if that radio signal was maliciously crafted and broadcast towards trains with targeted payloads that engage this functionality? Harvests/food stuffs rot?

This line of thought doesn't require genius level IQ, given the plots in some of the movies today even a relative dunce could compare and come up with this. Food security has been an issue for every country for millennia.
Using an SDK that wraps the API
>geothermal energy

Geothermal here is used for heating homes, electricity production comes from Hydropower generation (dams).

Source, an Icelander.
I agree it's a fine interface, clearly a lot of work has gone into making it polished and feature-rich. I'm simply seeking alternatives. If there aren't any with the same feature set, I'll probably just use Open WebUI.
They spend more per capita than the Chinese do? Are you unaware of that? Seems rather obvious..

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_consumer_mar...
Isn't the Eurasian plate moving widdershins?

The Wiltshire Downs and Salisbury Plain is mostly chalk/limestone. That is a porous rock which will expand and contract on water ingress/egress and be affected by atmospheric humidity. I've no real idea but I suspect that Stonehenge will rise and fall vertically(ish) on a seasonal and other longer rhythms.
I like this project! The PCB looks clean, and has a lean, but complete set of components.

160x200 video is a mistake however. Those pixels are twice as wide as they are tall, in NTSC signaling to be perfectly fair. And to be a bit more fair, using that resolution can mean eliminating color "dot crawl" common to devices outputting a composite color video signal, which this little computer appears to do.

Now I have written quite a bit of video related code for the Propeller 1 chip featured in this project. It is possible to compromise and double the video resolution to 320x200 and still maintain that crisp look seen in the product photos.

The secret is to avoid the color signal interlacing, and or output s-video, which is separated Luma and chroma signals similar to the C64 output signal. Additionally, one can get these little S-video to composite adapters that work pretty well on a non s-video capable display, though the Propeller can offer either video signal just for the asking, and the same video circuit is used for both.

With NTSC, anything over 160 pixels in the active video area, which is the signal inside the borders seen in the product photos on the project page, tends to leave fringing between high contrast pixels. Contrast being say, red and blue, which are far apart on the color wheel. This is caused by the low resolution of the NTSC color signal itself being superimposed onto the monochrome Luma signal in the composite, single RCA jack output case.

What I did for my video drivers, which can be found on the Parallax site with usually an MIT license, was to simply not interlace the color signal. The spec calls for the color timing to be such that every other scan line is out of phase relative to the prior scan line. This allows for 320 pixel color resolution with the cost being the fringing at high contrast pixel transitions.

If the driver simply does not do that, the result is a bit less sharp color, but also no shimmering in the text. That works pretty well with composite on most displays.

And when S-video is used, doing the interlace simply improves on the non interlaced color, making it sharper.

A propeller chip video generation is almost entirely software driven, which means one can do just about anything with the output signal. It is really a fun device.

In my opinion, a 40x25 text display with 7 bits per character, rather than the 4 bits seen on the CODY, would be a whole lot easier to read.

The good news is anyone can do that due to how the Propeller is a software driven video device.

All that said, the project author may have intended a specific look and feel, and if that is the case, the project looks like a home run!
Liz Truss was Lib Dem early in her life but then went Tory later. Most of farage’s party are ex-Tories.

Peoples views change, and parties change. The Tory party of today is very different to that of thatcher, just like the republicans today are very different to Reagan’s
because water is a hard surface at landing speeds and the plane often breaks apart at contact. if you manage to land in one piece, you have limited time before plane starts submerging.
> Now, every country joining the EU is expected to join the Euro at some point.

In theory yes, in practice no. The Swedish government has said repeatedly they don't plan to join despite being legally obliged to do so.

EU law says they have to do it, but it also says it can't be done without their active cooperation, and there is no penalty if they refuse to cooperate. The obligation is essentially toothless.

So Denmark having a formal opt-out from the Euro and Sweden not, is really more of a theoretical difference than a practically relevant one.
Strong agree: Upstream Color is poetry

Stanley Kubrick did something similar in `2001: A Space Odyssey`. In a scene where staff were being transported in a taxi... on the moon... 100% of the dialog is meaningless. They're discussing the merits of this or that sandwich, not how wonderful the Earth looks from space, or overcoming technical challenges.

It's so refreshing to be living in an environment vs being spoon fed.

Even better is very old or even silent movies ("M" is fantastic: modern-ish thriller from 1931 where sound is a character; Metropolis)

Also dialog-less movies: `Koyaanisqatsi` is incredibly beautiful and has a specific plot, even if there's no understandable dialog nor words.

In theaters _right now_ is `Flow`. No dialog, and no _human_ characters! It's all animated cats and dogs and other animals. It's startling how directly the characters transmit their goals and agenda and emotions.
Yes. Stagflation originated with the Nixon Shock, when he ended the Bretton Woods system and US Dollar-gold convertibility, because France and other countries wanted to pull their gold out of Fort Knox because we had the exorbitant privilege to finance the Vietnam War as well as Great Society programs.
> messaging is hard when prices never went down…

The opposite of inflation (when prices go up), deflation (when prices go down) is never a good thing. But explaining that a bit of inflation is a good thing is something all economists agree on but most normal people can't understand. The fact that velocity should always be positive, and that "lower inflation" means lowering the rate of price growth, not deflation, is also something they don't get.
> we need to assume that the survey was done of reviews.org visitors.

That's pretty unlikely. Reviews.org likely engages one of many vendors (like Qualtrics[1]) that will solicit responses online for a survey you design and provide to them through their survey building tool.

[1] https://www.qualtrics.com/research-services/online-sample/
or chain ur luggage to some iron loops found under the seats?
Through a SDK, it's the next sentence...

> These days a great SDK, not a great API, is a hallmark, and maybe even a necessity, of a world class development experience.
Probably the news from a few weeks ago that the government issued whale hunting permits through 2029.
Disappointed the story didn't end with the revelation that the good transmissions were all hand made by monks.
>Iceland hasn't been a primary sector economy in decades. They are now a service economy, especially software and finance.

Try tourism, outstripped our biggest industry (fishing exports) years ago.

> They might make an awesome data center hub.

Except for the fact that we're equidistant to any major population center which means high latency to everyone. Might work for AI, crypto mining or the few other non-latency dependent hosting niches however.
A <noscript> script would be even more suitable, but I agree with the principle. I added a link to view the demo without downloading the file, see https://gildas-lormeau.github.io/Polyglot-HTML-ZIP-PNG/demo.... (it was not working previously because GitHub serves pages in UTF-8).
that social credit remains though? you can still point at your history of answers for how well you understand the thing, and how well you can communicate that knowledge. a portfolio is still a portfolio
Also, they started from scratch, they didn't take NCSA's Mosaic public, they left the university, brought in some established players, created a new company, and re-wrote the entire browser from scratch. SamA wants to take everything the non-profit created and just make it for profit. If he want's to do that he can create a new company, lure away the talent, start from scratch, and run from there. This "it's just like Mosaic -> Netscape" line is total bullshit and either Gruber doesn't remember like I do or he's intentionally misleading for some other goal.
Your mindset certainly makes me never want to use Mastodon for anything.
What exactly is it that you think precipitates changes of language usage if not discussion and debate about people's preferences?

And who loathes the "unhoused"?
That would be funny. Microstrategy with one level of abstraction.
I guess the yardstick I was using was winning the popular vote and all the swing states.
What yardstick are you using?
> Tons of difference.

QED.
I truly believe that it's the user experience that makes the difference between lots of piracy, and very little. Take video games as an example, they're hardly cheap, however other than retro games that are difficult to play otherwise, almost everyone just buys the game on steam/gog/epic/whatever, because the experience for most people is:

1. Open Steam
2. Search for game
3. Buy game
4. Play game

Whereas if I want to watch a movie, I honestly don't even know where to start looking for it, there's no simple way to just pay for it on the movie app, keep it forever, download it, and watch it when you want. You have to do this ritual of finding what streaming service it's actually on, hope you have a subscription to it, if not subscribe to it, probably find it's not even available in your region, and if the stars align you might be able to watch your film for the next 30 days.

Or you can go on one of the many pirate sites, search for the movie, click the play/download button, and you're sorted.

I do pirate movies quite frequently, but moreso because it's the only realistic way to type a name into a search bar and just play the damn thing.
So you’re saying that USB-C cables are more expensive than Lightning ones?

Not that AFAIK iPhones support Thunderbolt anyway so how is this relevant?
It will probably work out fine in the elections, because Trump's followers trust him to do right by them even while he's lying. Time will tell whether they're correct.
Raptor is mostly failing because their price/performance is terrible. An x86 Raptor would be much more compelling.
It's reasonable when the alternative is 2-4x4090 at $2.2K each (or 2xA6000 at 4.5K each) + server grade hardware to host them. Realistically, the vast majority of people should just buy a subscription or API access if they need to run grotesquely large models. While large LLMs (up to about 200B params) work on an MBP, they aren't super fast, and you do have to be plugged in - they chew through your battery like it's nothing. I know this because I have a 128GB M3 MBP.
I'm learning New Testament Greek on my own*, and sometimes I paste a snippet in to Claude Sonnet and ask questions about the language (or occasionally the interpretation); I usually say it's from the New Testament but don't bother with the reference. Probably around half the time, the opening line of the response is, "This verse is <reference>, and...". The reference is almost always accurate.

* Using a system I developed myself; currently in open development: https://www.laleolanguage.com
Some arguments against a land value tax
Yes, but the most expensive CPU doesn't cost $40K.
Not always, because system RAM also has to be equally adequate, but mostly yes, it's about the total VRAM of the GPU(s).
I was already impressed but at the bottom of the page they show they wanna make an addon to color blender fluids accurately. Paint me impressed. Paint me impressed but with pigment blended accurately
> The Swedish government has said repeatedly they don't plan to join despite being legally obliged to do so.

Sweden is long in the EU. CURRENTLY the expectation to new member states to join the Euro when joining the EU is different -> much higher.

Sweden was also long not in NATO. Now it is. Similar, support in polls for Euro introduction is rising.
both this and land acknowledgements are making sure people are keeping those people in mind. that makes it harder to keep justifying screwing over those people.
Personally, I don't care about the library, and just want the pure math implementation for shaders and such. For that, they have the algorithm available here in GLSL, vec3 mixbox_lerp is the function you want:

https://github.com/scrtwpns/mixbox/blob/master/shaders/mixbo...

I don't have time to whip up a demo, but it seems like it's pretty well optimized and it looks really nice in the examples. Great work from these folks.
Dumb question: If Iceland had been part of the EU in 2008, would they have been able not to bail out their bankers and send them to jail? Could the banking industry have been able to go to a supranational court or something?

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-35485876
> No, that's actually off limits, by treaty.

They have to amend the treaty anyway to allow a new member state to join, so why couldn't they just amend it to remove that limit at the same time?

What really matters here isn't the letter of treaties, it is the political reality that it ain't happening. Canada's economy is very tightly bound to that of the US, joining the EU would be erecting all these new barriers to Canada-US trade which would hurt the Canadian economy, and the reduced barriers to Canada-EU trade wouldn't be enough to counteract that. There is no escaping the geographical reality that the US is right next door, the EU an ocean away.
> Moderation isn’t censorship.

Yes it is, it's just censorship that (most of) the people who would have heard whatever's being censored want.
What’s sickening is that the 15 million who voted against this and the 15 million who were denied a vote had their rights stripped because a few people who are now dead voted for “change”
Leaving aside personal preferences regarding the previous Polish and current Hungarian governments, the electoral processes are generally viewed as fair regarding the absence of major direct fraud related to vote counting. However, the fact is, that the state resources were used by the ruling parties to promote themselves.

The removal of the former Polish government was largely driven by public disapproval of state fund mismanagement. In Hungary, a key element of the current government's platform appears to be the promotion of national identity, including ties with diaspora communities formed after WWI (The Treaty of Trianon), potentially with implications for future "geopolitical alignments" (the likelihood of which is debatable).

These results, while influenced by the d'Hondt system, reflect the sentiment of the voting population, which is a democratic process, in principle. The ruling methods are not 100% democratic though (rule of majority with respect for minority rights)

However, the opinions of my "more Western friends" on those topics "diverge from on-the-ground realities".
IMO these are more comparable to transitional housing or maybe even a lower quality version of section 8 than to a shelter. If you compare the costs of these to something like an SRO or cheap hotel (common transitional housing in SF) I'm betting these come out ahead. The going rate for SROs here, which I'm assuming isn't far off from any major city in a developed country, comes out to just about $10k/year, and it probably costs cities far more to put homeless people in cheap hotels. Of course, these tiny homes don't just cost $10k upfront because you have to put them somewhere, but as long as they last at least 1-2 years they seem just as cost effective as SROs.

Also, homeless shelters are only cost effective for people who put up with them. A lot of homeless people would rather sleep in a tent or a car than a shelter and I honestly can't blame them, I'd probably do the same. Since shelters are less preferable to literally living outside to so many people (even in the absence of drug addiction) they are IMO not cost effective at actually addressing homelessness.
Maybe the Datadog Flare works like this?
Why would anyone outside some desperate eastern European countries want to join? EU is going down hard, since 2008 no meaningful GDP growth, flat salaries, no tech companies propelling growth, old population, all the while US and Chinese GDP is exploding. The only thing EU has is regulation and high taxes, everything else is deteriorating quickly and the rate of decline is accelerating. Barcelona, previously a jewel of Europe, now has as many homeless as LA in some areas.
I feel like there's a lot of appealing to prevailing HN sentiment in this post. So much so that there's little substance. What actual things are you worried about or unhappy regarding with Bluesky? It's not perfect, and if you have problems with its decentralization posture, Christine Lemmer-Webber has a fantastic post [1] detailing her problems with the protocol. Bluesky has the AT Protocol underneath it and has infrastructural components that can allow other entities to run Bluesky.

So my problem with this post, and general griping like this, is that by leaning so heavily on a shared boogeyman (that of "enshittification" or whatever) that there stops being concrete actionable complaints and more just general anger. Solutions can only come when we discuss problems.

At times a cynical portion of me even thinks this sort of posting is just low-key karma farming too, but I know that's too uncharitable a take, and I realize venting to the in-group can be therapeutic.

[1]: https://dustycloud.org/blog/re-re-bluesky-decentralization/
This was the weakest point of the whole article, particularly because Mastodon and Bluesky are identical in this respect. The reason he doesn't realize it is that almost everyone is on the same instance.

So yes, you will have:

@stephenking.bsky.social

and

@stephenking.bsky.otherinstance

Unless Bluesky remains a single server, in which case it's not at all decentralized.
Cool, could see this being useful as a palette with a combination of the normal mode. I don’t see a clear way of controlling the amount of paint in the demo, if i want 3:1 red to white how would i do it?
And yet… here we are with all those incentives aligned and nothing getting built… curious ain’t it?

By the way, you are aware that development nearby increases a current landowner’s value, right?

The “money-monomaniac” theory is disprovable through basic observation of what prices do during and after development.
Spatulas in Jensen's decorative jar.
This may have been true at some point... in the 90s? I'm not sure if it actually was even true then. In any case, it isn't true today:

https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-t480/

https://pine64.org/devices/

https://puri.sm/products/librem-14/

https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/

https://frame.work/ie/en/products/laptop16-diy-amd-7040

https://www.olimex.com/Products/DIY-Laptop/

https://shop.mntre.com/products/mnt-reform
I agree that at its current rate of $20 per month and continuous cash burn, OpenAI’s model doesn’t seem sustainable. But the same could have been said about Google in its early days. Back then, Google spent heavily to index websites without a clear path to profitability—until it figured out how to monetize. Similarly, OpenAI will likely release more products to generate revenue.

OpenAI has the potential to create the next groundbreaking innovation, like the iPhone. Who needs apps when the AI itself can handle everything?
What about NATO?

Surely embedding a remotely triggered off-switch, as a vulnerability for military and commercial trains (and the overall supply chain logistics) would merit some kind of investigation?

Can't anyone with an antenna in a semi-close proximity spoof GPS signals that would engage these mechanisms?
That was with Qwen 32B, which is still the best coder model for the size. You could run that just fine with a 36 GB RAM Mac.
I built the same for my browser extension (effectively dead product) -- would love to see if this pattern has a name so I can share it more widely!
This rings true to my ears:

> There is no technical moat in this field, and so OpenAI is the epicenter of an investment bubble. Thus, effectively, OpenAI is to this decade’s generative-AI revolution what Netscape was to the 1990s’ internet revolution. The revolution is real, but it’s ultimately going to be a commodity technology layer, not the foundation of a defensible proprietary moat. In 1995 investors mistakenly thought investing in Netscape was a way to bet on the future of the open internet and the World Wide Web in particular.

OpenAI has a short-ish window of opportunity to figure out how to build a moat.

"Trying to spend more" is not a moat, because the largest US and Chinese tech companies can always outspend OpenAI.

The clock is ticking.
Which is just another way of saying that the police will not protect informants or regular citizens from many kinds of crime. The police say they're underfunded and cannot do so. Which makes this a policy decision.

[1] https://www.polfed.org/news/blogs/2024/bbc-panorama-highligh...

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/03/underfundi...

(trying to keep any partisan links out of it, as there are MANY blaming one side or the other)
> the very health insurance companies that everyone hates

First of all, the vast majority of Americans like their health insurance [1]. There were talks of a public option but it would be political suicide for anyone in a swing state to support "government death panels." Indeed even the moderate ACA caused Democrats to suffer one of the worst Congressional losses in history [2].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/us/elections/health-insur...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_elections